TOUGH TALK: Pastor John McReynolds at the...
TOUGH TALK: Pastor John McReynolds at the Second Baptist Church in Santa Ana says he will make a dramatic shift in his sermon Sunday: He’s going to preach solely about AIDS. He’s calling it “From Magic to Tragic--The Aids Dilemma.” . . . “I realize it’s almost unheard of to hear that kind of message in a church,” says McReynolds, pastor there for eight years. “The language will be explicit.” Blacks need to discuss AIDS, he says, because of the relatively high incidence of the disease among black babies.
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